Garda describes 'significant concerns' regarding surgeon arrested for drink-driving
It is understood the surgeon, who worked at Cavan General Hospital, had absconded to Pakistan in 2023 after his appeals of two separate five-month prison sentences he had received on the back of his driving convictions had been struck out by the courts. Picture: Kevin Clancy/ViewPoint
A senior Garda has described the “significant concerns” he had held regarding the behaviour of a surgeon who was arrested for driving both while drunk and under the influence of drugs on at least six occasions.
Chief Superintendent Padraic Jones told a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry concerning Syed Bukhari that gardaí in the Cavan region had held “concerns” regarding the surgeon in the late 2010s “particularly in regard to his behaviour driving vehicles”.
